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Decreased Discrimination During Setting After Prolonged Planktonic Life in Larvae of Spjrorbis Borealis (Serpulidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

E. W. Knight-Jones
E. W. Knight-Jones
Affiliation:
Marine Biology Station, University College of North Wales, Bangor
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Laboratory experiments showed that freshly liberated Spirorbis larvae settle on surfaces which bear previously settled individuals, in marked preference to bare controls, but that larvae which have been kept swimming for 3 hr., or longer, exercise less choice when setting.

When larvae are freshly liberated there is a great difference between the rate of setting gregariously, and the rate of setting in isolation; but after they have been kept swimming for 3 hr. this difference becomes less, owing to the larvae setting more rapidly both gregariously and in isolation. After swimming for about 8 hr. rates of setting fall off, and many larvae fail to settle, apparently through weakness.

I am greatly indebted to Dr D. J. Crisp for advice regarding this problem, and to him and Mr G. M. Spooner for much help with statistical treatment.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , October 1953 , pp. 337 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1953

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